Monday, Nov. 2 @ 4 p.m. (Faculty House):
This event and co-sponsored by the Philosophy/ Religous Studeis and University College.
Brett Ralph suggests three generative sources for Black Sabbatical, his debut collection of poetry and a 2007 selection for the Linda Bruheimer Series in Kentucky Literature: growing up Southern working class in the 1970s and 80s, playing in punk rock bands, and practicing Tibetan Buddhism. Unsurprisingly, one review finds Black Sabbatical singing with “gutbucket colloquialisms, hallucinatory interludes, and the storytelling tradition of Kentucky.” When not teaching at Hopkinsville Community College, his country rock ensemble, Brett Eugene Ralph’s Kentucky Chrome Revue, plays seedy dives throughout the South.
Links below will take you to videos. The first highlights a reading at Murray State and the other is his eponymous band playing at Air Devils’ Inn in Louisville. Gutbucket indeed!